Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies articles from March 2007

Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies archives from March 2007

Introduction.(Editorial)
March 22, 2007... Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's first collection of poetry, Acts and Monuments, appeared in 1972. Since then, she has published seven collections, Site of Ambush (1975), Cork (1977), The Second Voyage (1977), The Rose Geranium (1981), The Magdalene...

'The world not dead after all': Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's work of revival.
March 22, 2007... Help is at hand Though out of reach: The world not dead after all. 'The Architectural Metaphor'. (1) From models she has found in that protoypical cultural revival, the English Renaissance, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain has developed the...

'Each page lies open to the version of every other': history in the poetry of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain.
March 22, 2007... 'History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogeneous, empty time, but time filled by the presence of the now'. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations. (1) To make a case for history in Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's poetry, a case must...

Interview with Eilean Ni Chulleanain.(Interview)
March 22, 2007... I'll start with a question about your life in general. It's very full: teaching, four years as Dean of the Arts Faculty at Trinity College Dublin, writing both poetry and prose, your life as wife and mother, with your son leaving university....

The Sister.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... The Sister i How on earth did she manage That journey on her own? When she was a young woman They had plenty to keep them busy, They were small, they felt queasy, They gripped a pillar in the shade ...

The Cold.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... The Cold The shrine sunk below the level of the travelled road, Reached by smooth, icebound stairs and a cramped door, Holds a single relic in its case of bone. I have to remember it. Whatever labour, whatever crime ...

'Hundred-pocketed Time': Ni Chuilleanain's Baroque spaces.(Eilean Ni Chuilleanain)
March 22, 2007... I. The Body in Baroque Art Eilean Ni Chuilleanain recalls her childhood experience of confronting a locked door, a frequent motif in her poetry, and, in this case, 'straining to catch a glimpse of a grey buttock and a muscular thigh...

'Alcove in the wind:' silence and space in Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's poetry.
March 22, 2007... This essay investigates Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's peculiar performance of inspiration, and argues that silence and secrecy are the two fundamental qualities of her work. (1) Its structure is thematic: it offers an exploration of the concept of...

The Architectural metaphor in the poetry of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain.
March 22, 2007... The final poem, 'The Promise', in Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's collection, The Magdalene Sermon, begins, 'In retrospect, it is all edge', a theme and an image which appears often in Ni Chuilleanain's work. Her poems depict edges, borders, and...

'Like a shadow in water': phenomenology and poetics in the work of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain.
March 22, 2007... In The Poetics of Space, the French phenomenologist, Gaston Bachelard, elaborates on the poetics of existential space and calls for a spatial concept of the subject that brings together self and world, being and fantasy. Such a space signifies...

'A snake pouring over the ground': nature and the sacred in Eilean Ni Chuilleanain.
March 22, 2007... Eilean Ni Chuilleanain does many expert things in her poems, but does them so quietly that often she remains unheard except by those who have returned many times to listen. She herself repeatedly refers to the importance of secrecy in her...

Good faith in religion and art: the later poetry of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain.
March 22, 2007... This essay is an exploration of the fertile yet contentious space of intersection between traditional religious faith, existentialist good faith, and aesthetics in Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's three most recent volumes, The Magdalene Sermon (1989),...

'No lasting fruit at all': containing, recognition, and relinquishing in The Girl Who Married the Reindeer.
March 22, 2007... Psychoanalytic development theory has consistently explored various metaphors--containment, holding, recognition, affect attunement--for the maternal activity that is necessary to form the somatic sense of self and to perceive and think about...

Praeteritio: (non-) possession and the translational impulse in Ni Chuilleanain's work.
March 22, 2007... In what ways can Ni Chuilleanain's translations be read as her work? As examples such as Pope's translation of Homer, Pound's translations from Latin and Chinese, and Heaney's version of Beowulf testify, there is a long tradition of considering...

Italian dialogues: an interview with Eilean Ni Chuilleanain.(Interview)
March 22, 2007... When did you first come to Italy, and why? Well, my father went to Rome in 1933 and waited impatiently for twenty years to get back. My parents brought me to Castellammare di Stabia in 1955 when I was twelve. What memories do you have...

'Oltre la Loira' ('Crossing the Loire').(Poems (in Italian translation))(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... 'Oltre la Loira' ('Crossing the Loire') (Febbraio 1998) Ho salutato il celebre fiume come ogni anho, Volgendo a sud come se l'aratro avesse girato, scalciando, all'inizio di un nuovo solco, le spalle agli ombrosi giardini...

'Quel che amor vede' ('Fireman's Lift'). (Poems (in Italian translation)).(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... 'Quel che amor vede' ('Fireman's Lift') Stavo li in piedi accanto a te, sguardo in alto Alla pioggia di luce ricadente attraverso il grande albero della cupola Ove la chiesa tutta si spalanca Ad accogliere i cori...

'Il chiostro delle ossa' ('The Cloister of Bones').(Poems (in Italian translation))(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... 'Il chiostro delle ossa' ('The Cloister of Bones') Comincio dal punto piu alto Meglio di tutti un campanile. Vedo la cima delle teste, selci, terrazze che sgattaiolano in basso come alla caccia di qualcosa sepolto...

Forms of exile: reading Cyphers.
March 22, 2007... Secrecy, hiddenness, obliquity, and other correlatives of the obscure have been among the most commented-upon aspects of the aesthetic and ethics of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's poetry, and some of the most compelling. (1) That Cyphers, the...

'We could be in any city': Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and Cork.
March 22, 2007... In short, isn't that opening on the world of which the philosophers avail themselves, a reopening upon the prestigious world of original contemplations? But put another way, is this intuition of the world, this Weltanschauung, anything other...

Eilean Ni Chuilleanain: a select bibliography.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2007... I. Works by Ni Chuilleanain A. Poetry Acts and Monuments. Dublin: The Gallery P, 1972. Simmons, James. Ten Irish Poets: An Anthology of Poems by George Buchanan, John Hewitt, Padriac Fiacc, Pearse Hutchinson, James Simmons,...

List of books reviewed.(Bibliography)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... Garry, John, Niamh Hardiman, and Diane Payne (editors), Irish Social and Political Attitudes (Eoin O'Malley) Genet, Jacqueline, Sylvie Mikowski, and Fabienne Garcier (editors), Le Livre en Irlande: l'imprime en contexte (Eamon Maher) ...

Jarlath Killeen, Horror and the Irish Anglican Imagination in the Long Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Jarlath Killeen, Horror and the Irish Anglican Imagination in the Long Eighteenth Century. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. 240 pages. EUR 55.00/STG 45.00 (hardback). Jarlath Killeen is a veritable gothic profusion in himself: Horror and...

Jacqueline Genet, Sylvie Mikowski, and Fabienne Garcier, editors, Le Livre en Irlande: l'imprime en contexte.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Jacqueline Genet, Sylvie Mikowski, and Fabienne Garcier, editors, Le Livre en Irlande: l'imprime en contexte. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2006. 400 pages. EUR 25.00 (paperback). This magisterial study of the book in Ireland, which...

John Garry, Niamh Hardiman, and Diane Payne, editors, Irish Social and Political Attitudes.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... John Garry, Niamh Hardiman, and Diane Payne, editors, Irish Social and Political Attitudes. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006. 192 pages. GBP 50.00. Few countries in the world have undergone the rapid economic and social changes...

Yvonne McKenna, Made Holy: Irish Women Religious at Home and Abroad.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Yvonne McKenna, Made Holy: Irish Women Religious at Home and Abroad. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006. 272 pages. EUR 60.00 (hardback); EUR 25.00 (paperback). For much of the twentieth century women religious formed the largest group of...

Eibhear Walshe, Kate O'Brien: A Writing Life.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Eibhear Walshe, Kate O'Brien: A Writing Life. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006. 194 pages. EUR 29.50 (hardback). Kate O'Brien is undoubtedly one of the most important writers to have come out of twentieth-century Ireland. Her best fiction...

Irene Gilsenan Nordin (editor), The Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Poetry.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Irene Gilsenan Nordin (editor), The Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Poetry. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006. viii+ 254 pages. EUR 20.00 (paperback). Irene Gilsenan Nordin's collection, The Body in Contemporary Irish Poetry, draws...

Rolf Loeber and Magda Loeber with Anne Mullin Burnham, A Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Rolf Loeber and Magda Loeber with Anne Mullin Burnham, A Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. cxv + 1489 pages. EUR 90.00 (hardback). With her novel Castle Rackrent Maria Edgeworth, in a startlingly modernist...

Gaid Girard, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: une ecriture fantastique.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Gaid Girard, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: une ecriture fantastique. Paris: Honore Champion, 2005. 459 pages. EUR 75.00 (hardback). This archaeology of Sheridan Le Fanu's shorter fiction mobilizes close textual reading to establish its argument....

List of books received.
March 22, 2007... Alcobia-Murphy, Shane, Sympathetic Ink: Intertextual Relations in Northern Irish Poetry. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006. 276 pages. GBP 50.00 (hardback). Andrews, Elmer Kennedy (editor), Irish Fiction Since the 1960s....